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The 2026 federal civilian base pay adjustment was set by the White House alternative pay plan: President Trump authorized a 1.0% across‑the‑board base pay increase effective the first pay period on or...
Federal employees should look to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as the primary official source for 2026 pay tables and effective dates; OPM posts GS, locality, special rate and related pay m...
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) typically publishes official federal pay tables in December for the coming year; sources say OPM "usually publishes pay tables ... sometime in December" for 20...
Available reporting shows there are two different but related numbers to watch for 2026: the COLA for federal retirees (annuitants) — announced as 2.8% for CSRS and effectively 2.0% for many FERS annu...
The 2026 retiree COLA has been set at 2.8% for Social Security beneficiaries and Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) annuitants, while Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) retirees will recei...
The sources show multiple policy moves and scrutiny around VA bonuses in 2024–2025 — including recoupment appeal procedures published January 15, 2025 (OPM rule on VA bonus recoupments) — but none of ...
Most reporting shows the White House submitted an alternative pay plan that would raise most civilian federal base pay by 1.0% for 2026 while freezing locality pay; select federal law‑enforcement cate...
President Trump submitted an alternative 2026 federal pay plan that would raise base pay by 1.0% and freeze locality pay, while giving certain federal law‑enforcement categories a 3.8% boost . That pr...
Federal employees have 11 official paid federal holidays in 2026; several sources list the calendar dates and note weekend‑observance rules (if a holiday falls on Saturday it is usually observed Frida...
Federal employees should watch the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website for official 2026 GS and special-rate tables; OPM posts final pay tables on opm.gov and typically releases tables in Dec...
OPM and the White House set the rules that determine when official 2026 pay tables and locality adjustments publish: the President sent an Alternative Pay Plan to Congress on August 28, 2025 calling f...
A person with a felony conviction is generally barred from becoming a federal law enforcement officer, and ; recent reporting about loosened hiring barriers describes streamlined processes and incenti...
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) follows the Social Security Administration’s COLA determination and implements annuity adjustments effective December 1, with the new payment appearing the fir...
The available documents and analyses reviewed do not provide a specific count of . Multiple ICE- and media-related sources in the provided dataset discuss women’s roles, hiring processes, and staffing...
The pay for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers in 2025 is reported in job postings and media as ranging from roughly $49,739 to $89,528 for new hires, with returns/exper...
Legal challenges, court orders, and policy analyses in 2025–2025 document numerous actions by President Donald Trump that critics and some courts describe as unlawful: federal judges ordered certain O...
Federal retirees will see the 2026 COLA reflected in the January 2026 annuity payment (the payment for December), and agencies say any retroactive amount for the period between the COLA effective date...
ICE pay and benefits in 2025 are reported as , with multiple sources citing entry-level Deportation/Removal Officer pay roughly in the $48k–$90k band and experienced criminal investigators or special ...
The official 2025 General Schedule (GS) base pay table — the nationwide, non-locality annual rates by grade (GS‑1 to GS‑15) and step (1–10) — was published by the Office of Personnel Management and in...
Congress’s formal 2025 session calendars—released separately by House and Senate leaders and compiled by private groups—show repeated weeklong recesses and multi-week breaks tied to federal and religi...